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Peace movement factionalism I was saddened to read about the split in the Sydney Walk Against the War Coalition. Downturns in movements seem to bring out this sort of factionalism but upsurges sweep it aside, which gives me hope. There are
Scottish Socialist Party MP Tommy Sheridan on August 25 chose to go to jail rather than pay a fine imposed on him after his arrest at an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Faslane Naval Base on February 11, 2002. Nuclear-armed British submarines
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS CANBERRA — According to an unnamed senior federal education department officer quoted in the August 11 Sydney Morning Herald, the government censored the National Report on Australia's Higher Education Sector (2001), because it
BY VANNESSA HEARMAN MELBOURNE — Zito da Costa, president of the East Timor Confederation of Trade Unions (Konfederasaun Sindikatu Timor Leste — KSTL), one of several trade union groupings in East Timor, addressed a small gathering at Trades
BY CONN HALLINAN The decision by the US administration to sue the European Union over its moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) may be aimed less at the EU than at developing countries, which are
BY LESLIE RICHMOND ADELAIDE — For the past two weeks, Craigmore High School in Adelaide's outer northern suburbs has been at the centre of student protests, almost daily news items in the Murdoch-owned Advertiser and threats of industrial action
BY JAMES BALOWSKI JAKARTA — Taking a leaf out of US President George Bush's cynical manipulation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the Indonesian military (TNI) is trying to take advantage of public fear and anger over
BY RENFREY CLARKE ADELAIDE — A public meeting was held by the Socialist Alliance here on August 27 at the Semaphore Workers Club. Billed as "a discussion on red and green politics and activism", the meeting attracted 25 people, many of them
BY EVA CHENG On August 7, the United States government formally demanded that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) set up a dispute settlement panel in order to legally challenge the European Union's five-year de facto ban on the new approval of
BY BARRY SHEPPARD SAN FRANCISCO — The recall election of Governor Gray Davis in California continues to generate more interest than recent elections. People throughout the state are registering to vote in record numbers. There is a sense of
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE The Trial of Henry KissingerSBSSunday, September 7, 8.30pm. When US President George Bush appointed Henry Kissinger to chair the committee of inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the resulting outcry forced Kissinger to

On August 14, I was stranded on a virtually immobilised transit system as the largest blackout in North American history struck. The power outage affected almost 50 million people across the north-eastern United States, from New York to Detroit, and the Canadian province of Ontario.